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Schoolboy Turns in Found 'Weapon', Gets Suspended For Effort
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| 12/14/06
| Warner Todd Huston
Posted on 12/14/2006 12:25:17 PM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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Boy... follow your heart and get suspended!
To: Mobile Vulgus
In a previous life we could say there is more to this, or something else is going on, these days, this is no surprise at all, that is sad.
To: Mobile Vulgus
I posted this on antother thread on this story:
I heard the kids mother on the radio this morning. She descibed what her son told her happened. From her explaination, it sounds like school officials caught wind of a gun being in the school, they cleared all the girls out of the cafeteria, and were preparing to check all the boys for weapons. That's when this kid came forward and addmitted he had found a gun. So, yes. there is more to this story.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:30:02 PM PST
by
jaydubya2
To: Mobile Vulgus
before we get the baby thrown out with the bath water, remember that 'zero tolerance' policies were enacted because these same dolts tolerated drugs, weapons, etc..
the 'zero tolerance' per se isn't the problem (see how they're steering ut to that conclusion?), its' idiots with no clue in charge.
if we do away with zero tolerance, schools will again become full of drugs and guns, etc..
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:30:07 PM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
To: Mobile Vulgus
It kind of reminds me of the saying: "The path to hell is paved with good intentions".
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:30:20 PM PST
by
lovecraft
(Specialization is for insects.)
To: Mobile Vulgus
We tell them to be good little children and turn in those bad, evil guns to a parent, a policeman or a teacherWonder who the "we" is?
It's certainly not what the NRA Eddie Eagle program teaches.
A found firearm is not to be touched by the child.
They are told to leave the area and inform an adult.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:30:59 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
To: Mobile Vulgus
He's lucky, now he can be home schooled.
who says 'no good act goes unpunished'... I know , I know, it should be unrewarded 8-)
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:31:01 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ...... Merry Something PC.)
To: Mobile Vulgus
Just another school teaching liberal mindset. How upsetting.
I wonder if they can't put him in another school in a different part of town?
Also, as to the homeschooling crap...not only do the taxpayers have to anti up, but what about the parents? I am for homeschooling, but I know it requires lot of parents time to home school their children.
What a stupid stupid decision. Poor kid.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:31:18 PM PST
by
Lucky9teen
(If someone offers you a penny for your thoughts, tell them "I was thinking how cheap you are")
To: Mobile Vulgus
There has to be more to the story. ....because if there isn't, this is beyond psychotic.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:31:30 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mobile Vulgus
No good deed ever goes unpunished.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:31:55 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: SF Republican
When I was in grade school in the late-80's, I brought a spent shell to show-and-tell. My interested teacher asked me what kind of gun I shot. Today, the same act would get a student a two-week suspension, if not more. The world is mad.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:32:44 PM PST
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: Mobile Vulgus
Superintendent Larry Wiers said that "purposeful possession of weapons is one of the most serious offenses a student can commit and requires close consideration by the administration." "Purposeful" posession, to any critical-thinking capable individual, would not include the purpose of turning a found pellet gun in. NOTE: This assumes that the details of finding the pellet gun and securing it for proper disposal by the relevant authorities (i.e.: the school administration, in this case) were correctly reported.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:33:43 PM PST
by
MortMan
(I was going to be indecisive, but I changed my mind.)
To: Mr. Mojo
Please see post #3.
It may help explain his motives.
To: Mobile Vulgus
To: Diana in Wisconsin
And if, during the year of home schooling, he should find
another gun and turn it into his publicly-funded homeschoolers....
Woe Betide him! He will get Short Shrift!
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:36:13 PM PST
by
C210N
(Bush SPIED, Terrorists DIED!)
To: Mobile Vulgus
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:37:01 PM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(The terrorists have many allies in the United States, especially in the democrat party.)
To: Jim Verdolini
The school is in Shorewood, IL - outskirts of Chicago.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:38:02 PM PST
by
Teflonic
To: Mobile Vulgus
The lesson here: Don't be a stool pigeon.
To: Mobile Vulgus
"... The lessons here are disheartening. The Troy Elementary School District just taught young Ryan Morgan that if he sees something wrong going on that he'd darn well better turn and walk away, stay out of it, don't get involved."
"... I'm not mad, I'm proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learned two great things in your life. Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut."
QFT.
To: Mobile Vulgus
I'm not a litigious little fellow at all (unusual for an attorney, I know), but part of the reason we have school administrators who behave like this is that there is no real consequence to their absurd decisions and rulings.
Sue them. Make them lose their jobs. Make the schools pay a fortune for these abuses of power. Force some people into bankruptcy. Take their homes. Ruin their marriages. Make their children cry.
Until they suffer a real punishment for abuses of discretion, the abuses will grow more frequent and pronounced. Pain & Pleasure, Reward & Punishment, and all the jazz.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:39:40 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
(Rock, Rock, Rock and Rollergames! Rockin' & Rolling, Rockin' with Rollergames!)
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